"Liberty," Bartholdi's statue, presented to the United States by the French people in 1885, is the largest statue ever built. Its conception is due to the great French sculptor whose name it bears. It is said to be a likeness of his mother. Eight years were consumed in the construction of this gigantic brazen image. Its weight is 440,000 pounds, of which 146,000 pounds are copper, the remainder iron and steel. The chief part of the iron and steel was used in constructing the skeleton frame work for the inside. The mammoth electric light held in the hand of the giantess is 305 feet above tide-water. The height of the figure is 152½ feet; the pedestal 91 feet, and the foundation 52 feet and 10 inches. Forty-persons can find standing-room within the mighty head, which is 14½ feet in diameter. A six-foot man, standing on the lower lip, could hardly reach the eyes. The index finger is 8 feet in length and the nose 33/4 feet. The Colossus of Rhodes was a pigmy compared with this latter day wonder.